Technical Leader Contracts in the City of London

Technical Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the City of London is £720, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 112 154
Rank change year-on-year +2 +42 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 13 15 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.68% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.72% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 16
10th Percentile £523 £450 £547
25th Percentile £550 £516 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £720 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £901 £731 £750
90th Percentile £939 £760 £788
Central London median daily rate £698 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +3.33% -3.57% +21.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,084 3,467
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.07% 95.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 1,480 2,358
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £561 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -6.46% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.67%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (46.15%) .NET
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
4 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
5 4 (30.77%) Low-Code
5 4 (30.77%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (23.08%) Python
6 3 (23.08%) CRM
6 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
6 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Serverless
6 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
6 3 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
7 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
7 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Programming
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Apache
7 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
7 2 (15.38%) Power BI
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Data Lake

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 4 (30.77%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (15.38%) Star Schema
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Front Office
2 1 (7.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) jQuery
3 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (7.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Low-Code
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) CRM
3 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Coaching
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Programming
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) OutSystems
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce